Presidential Address 2019–Re-visioning Language, Texts, and Theories

PMLA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 134 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-458
Author(s):  
Anne Ruggles Gere
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Executive Director ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Executive Council ◽  
Composition And Rhetoric ◽  
Chicago Convention ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Task Forces

I attended my first MLA convention in Chicago, in 1973. A frugal graduate student, I stayed at a nearby YMCA but huddled in the evenings with a friend from graduate school in the Palmer House lobby where we shared, surreptitiously, a flask of bourbon and laments about the awful job market. I could never have imagined that forty-five years later I would be delivering the presidential address. During the years since that Chicago convention, I have worked with the executive director Phyllis Franklin, who invited me and a few others to think with her about how the MLA might accommodate what we then called composition and rhetoric. I have worked with Rosemary Feal, who became the executive director as I joined the Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee and who left the MLA shortly after persuading me to stand for election to the office of second vice president. In my participation on task forces, division committees, the Publications Committee, the Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee, the Executive Council, and most recently as an officer, I have been continually impressed by the talent, commitment, and resourcefulness of those who work for the MLA. I am grateful to belong to an association with such an excellent staff, and I want to offer special thanks to my friend Paula Krebs, whose first full year as executive director coincided with my term as president. Her keen intelligence, administrative skill, and fierce advocacy for our profession convince me that the MLA is in very good hands.

Minutes of the MLA Executive Council

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (3) ◽  
pp. 996-1001
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Executive Director ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Executive Council ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Bibliographic Information

[Note: The Executive Council voted to approve these minutes at its February 2009 meeting.]The council met on 24–25 October 2008 at the MLA office in New York. President Gerald Graff presided. The officers present were First Vice President Catherine Porter, Second Vice President Sidonie Smith, and Executive Director Rosemary G. Feal. The Executive Council members present were Carlos J. Alonso, Charles Altieri, Sara Scott Armengot, Dorian F. Bell, Anne Ruggles Gere, Jane Harper, Francis Abiola Irele, Mary N. Layoun, George Levine, Paula Rabinowitz, Hortense J. Spillers, Lynne Tatlock, Priscilla Wald, and Alexandra K. Wettlaufer. The MLA staff members present were Director of Operations Terrence Callaghan (24 Oct. only), Director of Bibliographic Information Services and Editor of the MLA International Bibliography Barbara Chen, Director of Programs and ADFL Nelly Furman, Managing Editor of MLA Publications and Director of Publishing Operations Judy Goulding, Director of Financial Operations Amilde Hadden, Director of Convention Programs Maribeth T. Kraus, Director of Research and ADE David Laurence, Director of Book Publications David G. Nicholls, and Assistant to the Executive Director and Coordinator of Governance Carol Zuses.

Presidential Address 1999: Humanism and Heroism

PMLA ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward W. Said
Keyword(s):  
Executive Director ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Professional Organization ◽  
First Year ◽  
Language Programs ◽  
Teaching Life ◽  
Foreign Language Programs ◽  
The Many

I recall two things about my exchange with the friendly soul who rang me several years ago with the offer to stand for the second vice presidency of the MLA. First is the vivid recollection of my serious and mostly incapacitating illness at the time: as it turned out this was to disable me almost completely for the first year's Executive Council meetings. The second is my somewhat ungracious response to the (mostly undeserved) compliment contained in the suggestion that I should accept the nomination: “Do I have to do anything if I get elected?” I asked with almost ridiculous impertinence. I think the answer was no, and I think I should say in my own defense that I formulated my question very specifically to mean only “do I have to do anything very much as second vice president?,” a position I had frivolously assumed was not usually thought of as bearing a great responsibility. In any case, I was elected, and I did nothing the first year except, as I said, miss most of the meetings because of illness, unending treatment, and pain. Never having had much to do with administration during the many, too many, decades of my teaching life, I have to report to you that in my year as first vice president I had the opportunity at the outset to see how a major professional organization is run by really competent people and, second, to witness its humane and rational responses to the various demands of our time and those of our by now somewhat anxious guild, especially its younger members, for whom the job crisis has been so disabling and discouraging a symptom of this fin de siècle. Because of this genuine learning experience throughout my presidency, I am really grateful to, and happy to mention in particular, the extraordinary talents of our superb executive director, Phyllis Franklin, whose sensitive intelligence and marvelous skills not only guided us as a very large professional organization through a series of new challenges but, to speak personally, rescued your faltering president on numerous occasions when his temper and peculiar sense of humor got the better of him. May I also mention Phyllis Franklin's senior colleagues in the association, to whom I and all the other elected officers and members owe so much: Martha Evans, director of MLA book publications; Terence Ford, director of Bibliographic Information Services and editor of the MLA International Bibliography; Judy Goulding, managing editor of MLA publications; Amilde Hadden, director of financial operations; Maribeth Kraus, director of convention programs; David Laurence, director of English programs and ADE; Regina Vorbeck, associate executive director and head of the Division of MLA Operations; Elizabeth Welles, director of foreign language programs and ADFL; and Carol Zuses, coordinator of governance and assistant to the executive director?

Minutes of the MLA Executive Council

PMLA ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 858-866
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Executive Director ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Council Member ◽  
Executive Council ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Bibliographic Information

The Council Met on 30-31 October 2009 at the MLA Office in New York. President Catherine Porter presided. The officers present were First Vice President Sidonie Smith, Second Vice President Russell A. Berman, and Executive Director Rosemary G. Feal. The Executive Council members present were Carlos J. Alonso, Charles Altieri, Sara Scott Armengot, Dorian F. Bell, Jennifer Crewe, Anne Ruggles Gere (30 Oct. only), Jane Harper, George Levine, Paula Rabinowitz, Lynne Tatlock, Alexandra K. Wettlaufer, and Kathleen Woodward. Executive Council member Francis Abiola Irele was absent. The MLA staff members present were Director of Operations Terrence Callaghan, Director of Bibliographic Information Services and Editor of the MLA International Bibliography Barbara Chen, Director of Programs and ADFL Nelly Furman, Managing Editor of MLA Publications and Director of Publishing Operations Judy Goulding, Director of Financial Operations Amilde Hadden (30 Oct. only), Director of Convention Programs Maribeth T. Kraus, Director of Research and ADE David Laurence, Director of Book Publications David G. Nicholls, and Assistant to the Executive Director and Coordinator of Governance Carol Zuses.

The History and Organization of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA)

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard P. J. Freeman ◽  
Sabine Steyaert
Keyword(s):  
Administrative Support ◽  
European Federation ◽  
Executive Council ◽  
Task Forces ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Professional Psychologists

In 1981, the European Federation of Professional Psychologists’ Associations (EFPPA) was formed with 13 member associations (one per country) and no centralized administrative support. Thirty years later, EFPPA has become EFPA with 35 member associations representing about 300,000 psychologists across Europe. EFPA is now based in offices in the center of Brussels, the administrative heart of Europe, with a Director and staff who support the work of the EFPA Executive Council and the various Standing Committees, Task Forces, and Working Groups. In this article, the development of EFPA and the challenges faced, and mostly overcome, are outlined.

Functional-predictive Model Environments of Students in Graduate School as a Means of Scientific and Scientific-pedagogical Training of Highly Qualified Personnel

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Vladimir Sergeevich Malyshev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Predictive Model ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Pedagogical Training ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
Scientific Pedagogical ◽  
The Way

Introduction to the problem. The relevance of the analysis of the environment of a graduate student from the position of searching for a pedagogical means of managing his formation as a highly qualified specialist is due to the multidimensional goals and objectives of postgraduate training, which are based on the conditions of real life. The purpose of the article is to identify and justify the functional and predictive model of the environment of students in graduate school as a means of scientific and scientific-pedagogical training of highly qualified personnel. The methodology of the study. Theoretical bases of the description of a model of students in graduate school made presentation on environmental design, as part of a technology of the environmental approach in education, as well as theoretical and practical experience of understanding the way of life as a condition of personality during the educational process. An important role was played by the results of the study of the use of information and communication technologies as a system-forming factor in the training of highly qualified personnel in graduate school, conducted by the author since 2017. Results and conclusion. The environment of students in graduate school is presented as an integral tool that includes the parameters of the possibility, probability and reliability of achieving an educational goal in the environment and with the help of the environment. These parameters are revealed in the course of a sequential solution of nine tasks to describe the environment of students in graduate school, based on the rules of combining parts of the environmental approach in order to realize the educational potential inherent in it. The way of life of a graduate student is considered as a condition for becoming a highly qualified specialist with scientific and scientific-pedagogical training as a result of the interaction of the student with the environment.

scholarly journals Graduate Students as Independent Instructors: Seven Things to Know about Teaching Your Own Course while in Graduate School

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (03) ◽  
pp. 557-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward M. Burmila
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Novice Teachers ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Teaching Assistants ◽  
Undergraduate Instruction ◽  
Graduate Instructors

AbstractDespite being responsible for a large percentage of undergraduate instruction, graduate students often receive little preparation for their first solo teaching assignments (J. D. Nyquist et al.,Change31 (3): 18, 1999). Furthermore, the existing literature on pedagogy fails to address the unique challenges faced by graduate students who are asked to serve as course instructors rather than teaching assistants. This article presents seven pieces of advice intended to better prepare the predoctoral graduate student to assume the role of the professor before assuming the title. By understanding the attitudes of undergraduate students toward graduate instructors, preparing in advance to handle the mistakes that novice teachers often make, and recognizing the correlation between outward confidence and student perceptions of instructor quality, graduate students can derive the most benefit from a stressful and time-consuming assignment. Most important, graduate instructors can learn to effectively manage the time spent on teaching duties to ensure that other responsibilities such as coursework, qualifying exams, and dissertation research do not suffer.

Alexander Russell, 1861 - 1943

1943 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 427-428
Keyword(s):  
Physical Science ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Scientific Societies ◽  
Great Loss ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Good Nature ◽  
Lord Kelvin ◽  
Mathematics And Physics

The scientific world has suffered a great loss in the death of Dr Alexander Russell; for in the domain of electrotechnics he was an expert mathematician, while in the social world he set a splendid example of modest kindliness and unfailing good nature. He never said a hard word about any one. He was born at Ayr on 15 July 1861, entered Glasgow University in 1877 and took his M.A. degree there (in mathematics and physics) with first-class honours. He received the degree of LL.D. in 1924. He went to Caius College, Cambridge, in 1882, and was a wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos in 1886. I met him first in the ’eighties, and I still can picture to myself the bonnie tall Scotch laddie who was so friendly and so full of quiet Scotch humour. After a few years of teaching mathematics at Cheltenham College and the Oxford Military College he joined the staff of Faraday House, which was then just beginning its career, and in 1909 he became Principal, which position he filled most successfully until he retired in 1939. During this period he wrote many papers for the scientific societies and journals, in particular a series of articles in the Electrician on ‘Alternating Currents’. He finally collected these and published them in book form in two volumes. He wrote several other books, including a Life of Lord Kelvin, and he received honorary degrees from more than one university. He was president of various scientific societies, and a vice-president of the Institute of Physics. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1924. But it was not his technical but his social work that made Faraday House what it is. He had many old students all over the world, many of them holding important posts. When on leave they all came to see their old Principal, telling him their experiences and their difficulties, and always getting from him wise and valuable advice for the future. They now cherish his memory with real affection. He was President of the Physical Society of London from 1922 to 1924, and gave his presidential address on ‘Developments in physical science’ ( Proc. Phys. Soc. 35, 1).

Prioritizing the forgotten generation: why organizations should make boomers a key part of their talent acquisition strategy in 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-102
Author(s):  
Debra Squyres
Keyword(s):  
Baby Boomer ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Diverse Workforce ◽  
Baby Boomer Generation ◽  
The Us ◽  
Talent Acquisition

Purpose Every day, nearly 10,000 employees in the Baby Boomer generation retire from the US job market. However, many in this generation are not ready for a quiet, traditional retirement and are choosing to remain in the workforce – simply on their own terms. With more employment opportunities open to candidates in the US job market than almost ever before, employers should prioritize engaging these seasoned hires in their recruitment strategies. Design/methodology/approach Beamery’s Vice President of Customer Success Debra Squyres reviewed the most important reasons employers should not disregard the “forgotten generation” of candidates in their hiring strategies, especially when considering the diverse skills and roles Baby Boomers can bring to an enterprising workforce. Findings Among other job-specific skills and experience, the greatest benefits of recruiting new hires from the Baby Boomer generation are the candidates’ years of experience and likely leadership roles, propensity for in-person relationship-building and unique perspective in an ever-diverse workforce. Originality/value Highlighting the greatest benefits of Baby Boomer hires to employers is especially beneficial for those organizational leaders managing talent acquisition and retention.

scholarly journals Graduate school and the job market of the '90s: A survey of young geoscientists

Eos ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 78 (42) ◽  
pp. 461-466
Author(s):  
Chris M. Golde ◽  
Peter Fiske
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Job Market
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